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If best-seller lists had been compiled in the 1730s, one of the books at the top would have been L’Histoire de Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. The title doesn’t seem so long when you ...

Giacomo Puccini was right on time. With Italy’s greatest opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, in the twilight of his career, it appeared the country’s status as an operatic epicenter might end with the ...

Content provided by Rolex Partner, “Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in”, Giacomo Puccini wrote to Giulio Ricordi, his publisher, who actively supported him after his first opera, Le Villi (1884).

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Opera is doing it again. Setting aside mainstream repertoire, it’s producing an opera largely unknown in Northeast Ohio. This Friday and Sunday, at the Tudor Arms Hotel ...

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost and should not be confused ...

Produced in collaboration with the Cleveland Women's Orchestra and stage directed by Dorota Sobieska, the Cleveland Opera will present Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in the Crystal Ballroom at the Tudor Arms ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The current golden age in Puccinian scholarship has provided fresh insights into the composer’s craft. While ...

IT has always seemed to me a shame that Puccini in his third opera, Manon Lescaut, left out the brief interlude in Manon’s tragic life when she had found happiness with her Chevalier. Unlike ...

NO COMPOSER killed off his sopranos with more style than Puccini. La Boheme, Tosca and Madam Butterfly all end in gloriously tear-jerking deaths of his heroines. That pattern was set by his early work ...

Part of the recent popularity of Manon Lescaut has been thanks to Anna Netrebko’s assumption of the title role. In this live recording she is heard in concert at the 2016 Salzburg Festival with her ...